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Patented Dec. 27, |898.

J. H. GUSS.

VALVE FDR INFLATIUN.

(Application led July 23, 189B.)

(No Model.)

i UNITED STATES PATENT Finca.

JOHN H. GOSS, OF VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

VALVE FOR INFLATION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,836, dated December 27, 1898.

Application filed July 23, 1898. Serial No. 686,727. (No model.)

T0 all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. Goss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Valves for Inflation, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more especially to valves for ini'lating pneumatic tires and the like, in which the valve proper comprises a hollow spindle perforated laterally for the passage of the air and covered with a sleeve of rubber which normally closes the said valve, the said valve having a longitudinal movement to insert it and to provide for deiiation. In this class of valves the spindle has been provided with a swell or shoulder at or near its outer end, about which the rubber sleeve is passed, and this shoulder, thus covered, seats in an appropriate recess in the shell or casing, so as to retain the injected air, the said recess limiting the inward travel of the spindle. It has been found that the rubber sleeve has been ruptured by too forcible seating of the shoulder of the spindle within this recess; and one main obj ct of my invention is to so limit the inward m l vement of the spindle as to prevent such und ly forcible seating and the consequent rup ure of the rubber sleeve which surrounds sa'd spindle. This feature of my invention I ccomplish by constructing the inner end of the spindle of an angular form to cooperate ith a circular passage leading to the tire, so hat when the angular point of the spindle isi serted in the circular passage the spindle wil be restrained from further descent, and i us the sleeve relieved of undue pressure. rl e same thing may be accomplished by m king the end of the spindle circular and the massage angular, preferably triangular. rIh provision of the angular point of the spindle or the angular passage in the casing affords also abundant space for the free passage o the air.' Obviously it is advantageous to nsert such a valve without rotation, so tha the rubber may not be subjected to the gri ding action that would follow rotation; an for this purpose my invention consists in p oviding the spindle with a nut to which the aid spindle is swiveled, the

by the rubber sleeve j.

nut rotating and the spindle being carried by yit, but not necessarily rotating.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 isa longitudinal section of an ordinary form of inflation-valve shell or casing and cap with my improved valve in place and shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of my improved valve. Fig. 3 shows my spindle in elevation and inner end view. Fig. 4 is a greatly-enlargedr cross-section taken in the plane of line 4 4, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. l, showing a modification. Fig. 6 is a transverse section, greatly enlarged, taken in the plane of line 6 6, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is an elevation of the valve-spindle of Figs. 5 and 6.

a is the ordinary valve shell or casing, having a concaved or dished liange b for coperation with the tire or other article to which it is to be applied and also having the chamber c for the valve and the air-inlet d, leading into the tire or other article to be inflated.

The concaving or dishing of the flange b gives a rm hold on the rubber of the tire. The chamber c has the recess e and beyond it the enlarged screw-threaded chamber f.

g is a cap applied to the external screwthread h of the shell or casing and having a swivel-plate g arranged within it, and upon which rests the packing g2, whereby the packing may it the shell closer and the grinding action incident to screwing on the cap be minimized on the packing. This swivel-plate is of metal, having a teat g3, by which it is seated or swiveled in the cap.

c' is the valve-spindle, made tubular, as shown, and with a lateral outlet extending to one orboth sides and which is normally closed This rubber sleeve is stretched over a shoulder 7c and its outer end contracts in the groove Z to hold the sleeve in place. The point m-of the valve is made angular, preferably triangular, as shown more especially in Figs. 3 and 4, to cooperate with the circular channel d to prevent the rotation of the spindle after the shoulder 7c is seated in the recess e, thus to prevent undue pressure being brought upon the rubber and causing its rupture. y

Instead of making the point of the spindle IOO triangular it may be made round and fiat, as in Figs. 5 to 7, and the entrance to the channel CZ may be made angular or triangular, as shown at d.

In order to provide for the insertion and removal of the valve, I employ a nut n to travel in the screw-threaded chamber f, and this nut is made with a ilange n', over which the outertubular end of the spindle is headed, as at o, in order to form a swivel connection between the spindle and its carrier-nut n and so that the valve may be inserted and withdrawn by rotation of the nut Without thereby necessarily rotating the spindle. By this construction the grinding of the rubber sleeve which would follow the rotation thereof is avoided.

The nut n is provided with a nick p to receive a screw-driver, or the screw-driver end of the cap, for inserting andl removing the valve.

The angular spindle and its appropriate seat or the angular seat and the appropriate spindle, as already described, serve as a stop to limit the inward movement of the spindle, and the swivel-nut connection prevents rota-- tion of the spindle as soon as the rubber bears upon the valve-casing. The stop prevents the cutting of the rubber sleeve by undue pressure and the swivel feature prevents the cutting of the rubber by rotation of the spindle.

lvllat I claim isl. A valve for inflation, ofthe character described, having a shell or casing provided with an air-inlet, and a rotary tubular spindle, constructed with an an guiar point to cooperate with the air-inlet to prevent undue inward movement of the spindle, substantially as described.

2. A Valve for intlation, comprising a shell or casing having an inlet for the passage of air into the object to be inflated, a tubular valve-spindle, and a rubber sleeve around it, the said inlet or spindle being angular in cross-section at the point of engagement, to prevent further inward movement of the spindle beyond a given point, substantially as described.

3. A valve for iniation, having a shell or casing provided with an internally-screwthreaded chamber, a fianged nut movable in and lengthwise of said chamber, a tubular valve-spindle sWiveled to said nut, and having a lateral discharge, and a rubber sleeve around the said spindle, substantially as described.

In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 22d day of July, A. D. 1898.

.IOIIN II. GOSS.

Vitnesses:

W'. E. TWINING, J. II. FILLING. 

